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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
2023: The year of digitally sovereign clouds
This year, companies are sure to rethink their cloud strategies and increasingly rely on European clouds. In doing so, they will reclaim their digital sovereignty, implement sustainable data strategies and take the issue of green IT into their own hands.
By Holger Dyroff, Co-Founder and COO, ownCloud
Kiteworks Open Source Program Office (ownCloud)
Kiteworks empowers organizations to manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, protecting over 200 million end users across thosuands of global enterprises and government agencies. The Kiteworks Open Source Program Office is the steward of ownCloud, the open-source platform for sovereign secure data exchange, file synchronization, and collaboration. Built from the ground up in Go with zero database dependency, ownCloud Infinite Scale scales from a single binary to million-user deployments. Guided by a published governance charter and Apache 2.0 licensing, the OSPO ensures ownCloud remains a transparent, community-driven digital commons.
Users Receive Eviction Notice from Storage Service Wuala
By now you may have heard the announcement from Seagate that they are shutting down their cloud storage service, Wuala, this coming November. This gives users a little less than two months to back up any files they have stored in the cloud or risk it being lost...
Follow the ownCloud Contributor Conference from anywhere – with our Live-Stream
It’s time again – the ownCloud Contributor Conference is just about here. For one week, the ownCloud Community from around the globe will gather in Berlin to code, design, discuss, talk & have fun. Packed with Techtalks, Workshops and a Hackathon, the ownCloud...
App Store Changes in ownCloud 8.1
Some weeks ago we published a blog about changes for developers in ownCloud and promised to talk more about the app store process this week. In this post we explain the process - how to get your app in the ownCloud app store and how to get it approved for easy...
ownCloud Server Development Second Half of July
In this post we describe ownCloud core development in the last two weeks of July. Since the previous report covering the massive amount of new features getting merged, there has been a bit of a shift towards stability, but there still is enough to write about in the...
OpenSource.com: What’s next for the privacy-conscious ownCloud project
Frank Karlitschek is a free software developer and privacy activist. He'll be speaking at LinuxCon North America in August of this year. His topic, "Open source, safe and secure; A case for leaving data where it is," is very timely given the rash of data breaches...
ownCloud 8.1 Enterprise Edition is Here!
Over the past few weeks we have been teasing you with new features and updates in ownCloud 8.1 following the release of ownCloud Server 8.1. But today is the day that we are announcing the release of ownCloud 8.1 Enterprise Edition! With this release, ownCloud has...
ownCloud Server 8.1.1, 8.0.6 and 7.0.8, Enterprise Subscription for 8.1 Available
Today, we release the first minor update to ownCloud Server 8.1 as well as updates to ownCloud Server 8 and 7. ownCloud, Inc. announces availability of the ownCloud subscriptions for 8.1, both Standard and Enterprise. We would like to remind you that ownCloud 6 is...
Help Test the Upcoming 2.0 Desktop Client Release!
After the web interface, the ownCloud desktop client is probably the most important tool for using ownCloud. Unobtrusively running the background, many users rely on it to sync their files. There is a big new release coming: the ownCloud Desktop Client 2.0,...
Announcing the Federated Cloud Sharing API
Over the last few weeks have written a series of blogs on Federated Cloud Sharing. First, I wrote that it was Time to Federate our Clouds and then discussed The Next Generation File Sync and Share Technology, ending the series with a description of The Federated...
Federated Cloud Sharing in ownCloud 8.1
Over the few last weeks, ownCloud founder and company co-founder Frank Karlitschek has published a short series of blogs on the topic of Federated Cloud Sharing, discussing what it is and why it is important. Today, he published a draft of a open API for sharing...
Mount Options for External Storage
ownCloud has always provided options when mounting remote folders inside of ownCloud, but ownCloud 8.1 has taken this to the next level with added and expanded mount options for external storage. These additional mount options enable administrators to configure...
ownCloud Development in the First Half of July
Welcome to the ownCloud community update for the first half of July - covering a crazy month! We released ownCloud 8.1 and published many blogs and videos about what's new and improved. In coding news, work on 8.2 has started with work towards moving the Files app to...
LDAP Wizard– Faster and More Scalable Than Ever
We first introduced the Active Directory/LDAP Wizard with the release of ownCloud 6 to make integration with existing user directories easier. With the release of ownCloud 8.1 we have made improvements to the wizard and the backend connector that now make it even more...
ownCloud Contributor Conference Program
At the ownCloud Contributor Conference ownClouders will get together for a week of discussion and coding on ownCloud. The talk program will kick off on Saturday, August the 29th, with a keynote by Angela Richter. Today, we announce our exciting program of talks and...
Announcing the ownCloud Contributor Conference Keynote Speaker: Angela Richter
The ownCloud Contributor Conference is coming to Berlin from August 28 to September 3. The 2 day talk program will kick off on August 29 with a keynote speech given by Angela Richter, house director at the Cologne National Theater and director of the interactive...